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Ship Island is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, which stretches 160 miles from Mississippi to Florida, making it the longest seashore in the National Park System. Thereâs a cancellation station at Fort Massachusetts, which is your first stop when you get off the ferry.
In June, 2010, containment booms encircled the island in an attempt to protect it from oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 1  Ship Island (right) before (April 2001, bottom) and after (September 2005, top) Hurricane Katrina. 2  On the top of civil war era Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island. 3  Fort Massachusetts.